The scientific approach to nature and the environment is a clear one, rooted in measurement, observation, and data. Religion’s connection to the natural world is more fluid; just how the environment fits into a faith depends on teachings and interpretations, both formal and personal. Science is the factual authority on the environment. But increasingly, religious […]
Nazareth College
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Retrospective exhibit explores human nature
After teaching for 38 years at Nazareth College, Lynn Duggan will retire at the end of this semester. The current exhibit at the college’s Arts Center Gallery is a retrospective that spans nearly four decades of her work, and includes the elegant jewelry and sculpture Duggan is known for as a masterful metalsmith, and mixed […]
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Rochester clicks for young professionals
The Rochester region is home to about 20 colleges, universities, and technical schools, which is impressive for a mid-size metro. But despite those offerings, the area’s loss of young professionals continues to concern many business and community leaders in Upstate New York. A Brookings Institute report on education, which is based on data from 2007 […]
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DANCE: Stepping back in
After a year hiatus, the Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival will return Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4, but in a rather scaled down form compared to the last three years it was held. The festival will run for two days, rather than the previous nine or ten, and is headlining with a lesser known, […]
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Queer careers
Riley Folds is the founder of a nonprofit
organization that prepares LGBTQ college students for life in the work force.
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Treatment for a traumatized world
One of Vikki Reynolds’ first clients was a young girl who’d pee the bed to avoid being raped. Another early client fled halfway around the world to escape torture for his political beliefs. Reynolds, a clinician and instructor, says she observed similar characteristics in these early clients. Alongside pain and sadness, she says, there was […]
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ART: The end is the beginning
Even though autumn heralds the close of the year, and the death, decay, or otherwise slumberfest of nature, to me the crisp, fresh air always feels like a beginning. This probably comes in part from our everlasting association of autumn with going back to school. Now that school is back in session, many of the […]
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Finding the readers within
Jose Valentin, a small boy with big brown eyes behind thin wire glasses, liked the summer reading clinic at Nazareth College so much that he never missed a day. On the one morning he was late because he missed his bus, his teachers immediately began to worry. But staying home was not an option. Valentin […]
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Domestic violence
Two Rochester artists have constructed an 18-foot-long rhinestone-laden replica of a US Predator drone, which will be shown as part of a multimedia exhibit opening Friday, March 1, at the Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The installation, “Home Drone,” asks audiences to consider what life is like for people in Pakistan, Yemen, […]
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Degrees of debt
Melissa Nicholson had a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in education, and zero job prospects. “I discovered I couldn’t get a job just being certified to teach elementary school,” she says. “But I thought, ‘Even though I’m swamped in loans already, there’s no way I can turn back now that I’ve come this far.’” Nicholson, […]
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ARTS: Nazareth College Arts Center announces hiatus for Dance Festival
Today the Nazareth College Arts Center announced that its annual Dance Festival, which debuted in 2010, will go on a one-year hiatus for 2013. Organizers are looking to “re-imagine” the festival’s programming and timing before bringing it back in 2014; the three previous editions took place in July. In its three previous incarnations the festival […]
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The zombie class
The current political debate may seem like it’s about jobs, taxes, and the national debt. But what Americans are really experiencing is a philosophical crisis involving the middle class, said Stephen Shapiro, a professor of English at the University of Warwick in Britain. The crisis is revealed, he said, in the zombie film craze. Much […]
